Goddess Gold – France
Local Vintage/Junk Sales
Nudge, nudge, wink, wink. Nobody knows about these except the French, but twice a year, locals put on their own neighbourhood sales. June and September are usually the best months to turn up. For details, visit http://www.videgreniers.org
By Holiday Goddess Editors
Categories France, Goddess Gold
Goddess Gold – Paris, France
An Aussie’s Vintage Clothing Shop
Maria Vrisakis stocks chic babywear, Prada and the best of vintage French in her shop, and speaks Australian (tres bon!) to you too. Nearest Metro is Temple. Visit http://www.marielouisedemonterey.com.
By Holiday Goddess Editors
Categories Goddess Gold, Paris
Goddess Gold – Paris, France
It’s the French Japanese Restaurant Street!
Craving noodles or a little ramen? Go to Rue Ste-Anne, where you’ll trip over Japanese visitors looking for the same thing. Nearest Metro is Pyramides. Try Higuma, on the strip at 32 bis, rue Ste-Anne, 1st.
By Holiday Goddess Editors
Categories Goddess Gold, Paris
Goddess Gold – Corsica, France
Luxury Camping in France
Expect a short walk to a very long (four kilometre) sandy beach and some brilliant local restaurants and cafes at De La Plage. There’s a pizza oven on this glampsite too. A tiny six euros per person, plus around three euros for your tent. Fly to Calvi, and go from there. Visit [...]
By Holiday Goddess Editors
Categories France, Goddess Gold
Three Things to do in Paris
Shopping: Collette (www.colette.fr ) is pure, hip, sleek and most happening Parisians will tell you it’s the coolest store in Paris; Open now for eleven years and located at 213 Rue St Honore, Paris 75001, Collette’s modern three level store boasts some of the best collections of designer clothing, make-up, gadgets you didn’t know you needed, a bar, a café, a magazine stand and even their own music compilations which are played all over the city in all the right places. Those in the know in fashion rate the store highly and you can easily pass an afternoon there in shopping bliss maxing out the credit card.
By Alex Billington
Categories France, Paris
The French Michelin Star Restaurant Experience
Last year I was a Michelin virgin, untouched by the world’s most rated cuisine. You never forget your first Michelin experience. Mine was with twins, Jacques and Lourent Pourcel, brothers in arms behind the helm of the kitchen at Le Jardin Des Sens, a two star Michelin restaurant on the outskirts of Montpellier, in the French region of Languedoc.
By Rachael Oakes-Ash
Categories France, Montpellier
Running Away to the South of France
Running away to live in France this year (following a lifelong dream to live in Paris) was so scary that I had to ease into it by pretending I was on holiday. And where does everybody in Paris go (the city is so strangely closed during August) but the South.
By Jane de Teliga
Categories France
Perfume Shopping in Paris
I’ve discovered some of the smaller boutique perfume houses in Paris over recent years, each one with its own unique smells and sensations.
By Alex Billington
Categories France, Paris
Mooching in the Marais, Paris
Living in Paris in the Marais for a year just recently, made me fall in love with the Marais but not just the usual fourth but also the third arrondissement. Here, for all the Holiday Goddesses, are some of my favourites places to go in my local ‘hood. Here fashion and food, my two loves, meld to create a Parisian haven of deliciousness.
By Jane de Teliga
Categories Paris
Paris – A Love Affair
Alexandra Billington’s relationship with Paris is strictly personal, and it all starts at The Shakespeare & Company bookstore on the left bank.
Right now I’m sitting in a café in New York thinking about Paris and remembering the first time I was sitting in a café in New York thinking about Paris, under quite different [...]
By Alex Billington
Categories France, Paris
